Cora Mabel Bicksler Young

Note: Cora Mable Bicksler Young was the wife of William Wilson Young, who was the son of Robert and Louisa Robey Young, the grandson of Levi and Almira Waite Robey, and great-grandson of William and Mary Collins Robey. She was my great-grandmother. R. Campbell, Ed.

MRS. CORA M. YOUNG

Services for Mrs. Cora Mable Young, 79, who died Wednesday night, March 16, in the home of her son, Robert Young, 4001 West State Street, were conducted Monday in the McAllister-Julian-Poorman funeral home, 304 North 5th Street. The Rev. George Ford officiated. Burial was in Willwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Young was born April 21, 1869 at Shannon and was the wife of W.W. Young of Freeport who died in 1915.

In addition to the son in whose home she lived Mrs. Young is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Viola Borger, Cedarville; and Mrs. Alice Sullivan, Wenatchee, Wash.; two sisters, Mrs. Annie Alberts and Mrs. Kate Welker, both of Rockford; and six grandchildren.

[Corrections: Cora Young was born in 1870, was 78 years old, and died on 17 March, 1949.] Source: The West Suburban News, Rockford, Illinois, April 1949, P.3.

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Personals

Mrs. Alice Sullivan, sister of Bob Young, 3968 W. State St., arrived here Sunday morning, March 20, from Wenatchee, Wash., to attend the funeral of her mother, Mrs. Cora Young, who was buried March 21st. Mrs. Young was sister to Mrs. Annie Alberts, 711 Vista Terrace, and Mrs. Kate Welker, South Springfield Ave. Their only brother, Mr. Porter Bicksler of Shannon, Ill., passed away just two weeks before Mrs. Young.

Source: The West Suburban News, Rockford, Illinois, April 1949, P. 8.